Nineteen Eighty-Four

Winston Smith follows the Party line and rewrites history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With every lie he writes, Winston comes to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thought crimes. But when he starts thinking for himself, Winston can't escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as Nineteen Eighty-Four, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell (the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on June 8, 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and last book completed during his lifetime. Thematically, 1984 focuses on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regulation of people and behaviors within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modeled the novel's authoritarian government on Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.

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